Rescued Thread: Wendigo
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:51 pm
Due to some posts falling into Oblivion, I re-post one of them, contents of which I happened to save on my hard drive.
RedWolf wrote:Algernon Blackwood wrote a short story entitled "The Wendigo" in 1910, first popularizing this legend. The entire tale is posted online in several places. See http://www.gordon-fernandes.com/hp-love ... endigo.htm , for example
Has the copyright expired? The Project Gutenberg website, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10897, declares that "The Wendigo" is no longer copyrighted in the United States.
A 2001 film entitled "Wendigo," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275067/,
reinvented the legend, describing the wendigo as half-man, half-deer.
In Quebec, French myths about werewolves ("loups garous) collided with ancient wendigo myths, resulting in hybrid stories, such as the rugaru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rougarou
Here are some more Wendigo websites:
http://www.glasseyepix.com/html/model.html
[weredeer monster from the 2001 movie]
http://www.thewendigo.com/html/TheWendigo.html
http://www.thewendigo.com/html/wendwha.html
[weredeer cartoon]
http://www.prairieghosts.com/wendigo.html
